OpenLogic released its 2025 State of Open Source Report in collaboration with the Open Source Initiative and the Eclipse Foundation. The report identifies a number of notable trends.

Unsurprisingly, the use of open source software by SMBs and enterprises is on the rise, with 58.09% of all respondents reporting higher use of OSS over the past year. Among larger enterprises, that figure jumps to 68%.

Infrastructure technologies dominate the list of categories where organizations invest the most in OSS:

The factors cited by organizations in explaining their use of OSS are familiar:

However, the report also explores challenges created by organizations’ growing reliance on OSS. More than 50% of respondents said that the deployment of OSS introduced complexity and management challenges into their infrastructures. Specifically, respondents cited keeping up with updates and patches, meeting security and compliance requirements, and maintaining end-of-life (EOL) versions as their most significant challenges in using OSS.

The report also explored the reasons why organizations may hold on to proprietary technologies despite the availability of OSS alternatives:

As we’ve previously noted, there is no drawback to the use of OSS that can’t be addressed by the strengths of (C)OSS. Rather than dissuading organizations from using OSS or startups from pursuing COSS business models, these trends should present opportunities and learnings for COSS entrepreneurs.